Comments on: Homeschooling With Charlotte Mason: Part 1

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By: Charity

Charity — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:57:45 +0000

Thank you Angela!

By: Mrs. Santos

Mrs. Santos — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:24:42 +0000

Thank you for this post and the wonderful reminders! We use the Charlotte Mason approach and use Ambleside Online as our curriculum. It’s great and it’s FREE.

I especially love the two chief duties of parents – so good and true. Sometimes it seems that’s all we do during the day…work on our “habits”.

Blessings to you and your family.

By: Angela Cribb

Angela Cribb — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:41:48 +0000

Charity,

Check out Homeschool Legal Defense Associations (HSLDA)website. They have information on the legalities of homeschooling in each state (every state is different) and should be able to help answer any questions you have. Sorry I can not get the website to link, you will have to copy and paste.

http://www.youcanhomeschool.org/starthere/default.asp?bhcp=1

Hope it helps,

Angela

By: Charity

Charity — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:34:02 +0000

I’m very thankful for this post, and I’m eager to find any information Mason has to offer. My oldest is 3 1/2yrs, and although we decided before she was ever born that we would homeschool, I feel a bit nervous about it now that she is closer to “school age”. I just don’t understand all the ‘legalities’ of it and have become very confused as my husband and I have begun to try to sort out what we are required by our state to do. Famliy members have told us that the state can take our children from us if I’m not teaching them properly. I don’t know anyone that does homeschool, so I was wandering how much truth there was to that. I don’t really understand why the state has anything to do with what you decide to do for your children’s education…they are *our* children, and I don’t believe anyone else should be teaching/raising them, I’m just a bit ignorant about how to get started.

By: Kelly L

Kelly L — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:14:33 +0000

What an encouragement, Kelly. I have never heard of this method of teaching, but in His grace, God has lead me to this style on His own. Anytime I feel stressed about getting this or that done, He reminds me of the Godly young woman she is already and that it is worth so much more than anything out of a book. (Please don’t misread, we school academically too. She has been having such severe growing pains we haven’t been able to make her do much of anything…thus the stress I am feeling). I like the Mason way already!

By: Crystal

Crystal — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:02:34 +0000

We have been using the “Charlotte Mason” way of homeschooling for 2 years now. We love it. We get our curriculum mostly from amblesideonline.org. There is also a great deal of information on that website.

By: the cottage child

the cottage child — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:48:05 +0000

Well, you already know how I feel about this – the philosophy is a high high ideal, one worth pursuing. It is child focused, but hardly child centered – there’s nothing “childish” about it, in fact – just check out Miss Mason’s Formidable List of Accomplishments for a Child of 6 (um, what about a woman of almost 42, does that count? ) That said, it is sweet, positive, encouraging, and about experiencing life for what the Creator made it to be, about experiencing, as we see it, the relationship between God and all things worth knowing.

One word of – not caution, exactly, but encouragement wrapped in a heads up – this is an academically rigorous approach that is a step beyond even the most thorough classical curriculum. It is an adventure, and for parents who feel like there are gaps in their own education it is an engaging, enlightening FAMILY school. There is an intensity to it, even though the “school” structure is fairly gentle. I strongly suggest, in particular to your group of readers who so diligently pursue truth from the original source, to start slowly, with purpose and build momentum. It is extremely tempting to dive head first into all the material, stay up WAY past bedtime, way to many nights, drinking it all in, and spending the next morning trying to overcome the sleepies and the grumpies. And that’s just the parents!

I also encourage parents considering homeschooling at all to read CM’s Original Homeschooling Series.

Love, thanks for a great post Kelly.